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Overlapping Neural Correlates of Reading Emotionally Positive and Negative Adjectives
Traute Demirakca1 , 3
Cornelia Herbert1
Johanna Kissler2
Matthias Ruf3
Tim Wokrina3
Gabriele Ende, *
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Abstract
Comparison of positive and negative naturally read adjectives to neutral adjectives yielded an overlapping higher BOLD response in the occipital and the orbitofrontal cortex (gyrus rectus). Superior medial frontal gyrus and posterior cingulate gyrus showed higher BOLD response to negative adjectives and inferior frontal gyrus to positive adjectives. The overlap of activated regions and lack of pronounced distinct regions supports the assumption that the processing of negative and positive words mainly takes place in overlapping brain regions.
